CIA loses JFK records case on appeal

A federal appeals court last week overturned a lower court ruling that
the CIA had won in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit involving JFK
assassination records, and ordered CIA to continue processing the
request.

The case involves records sought by journalist Jefferson Morley that he
believes will provide new insight into the assassination.

"This decision, if the CIA respects it, will shed new light on one of
the murkiest areas of the Kennedy assassination story: the CIA
intelligence collection operations that picked up on Lee Harvey Oswald
in the weeks before JFK went to Dallas," Mr. Morley said.

FOIA decisions against the CIA are relatively rare. The latest
decision does not immediately imply any new release of records, but
requires the CIA to perform a new search and to provide further
justification for its opposition to disclosure.